6©6 k/f Commentary yon the Gofiel Chap.27 this woefull curfe, which cleaves clofe to them and their potte- city, as a girdle to their loins, 'baking as oil into their bones to this very day, Pfal. 109.18,19. 'Thirty eightyears after this fearful' imprecation, in the tame place, and clofe by the fame tribunall where they thus cried oui, His 61oud be on at, &c. Hiftorians tell us, that Herod, wantingmoney, demanded of the Jews fo much out of their treafury, as would pay for themaking(la wa- ter-courfe. But the Jews, fuppofing it a needleffe work, not only denied him, but gavemany out-ragions and£pitcfull fpeech- es,. tumultuoufly flockt abouthim, and withgreat clamours prefl uponhim, even as he was in his feat. Whereupon to prevent mifchief, he fent tohis ffuldices toapparrelthemfelves like Ci- tizens, and under their gowns to bring with them a dagger or ponyard, and mingle themfelves amongft the multitude which ¡tì erar.scri- they did, obfervingwho they were that made the greatefl up- pturæ,p. ;o. roar. Andwhen Herod gave the fign, they fell upon them, and flew great multitude. Many alfo, for fear of bile or danger kil- led themfelves; betidesothers, which feeing this rnaffacre, fit- (peeking treafon among themfelves, fell one upon another. What a difperfed and defpifed people they are ever fince, exiled, as it were, out of the world,, by the commonconfent of all Nations, for their inexpiable guilt. See my TrueTreafre, Chap.. Se6t. z And beware by their example of wifhing evil to our felves or others, as our defperate 9ed.damn-me's doat every third word almoft, and God will undoubtedly take them at their words, as he did thofe wretches, that whiledthey might die in the wit- derneffe, Numb, t 4.28. As he did yehn Peters, the cruel! Keep- a4R, aadMon.. er ofNewgate in Queen t.'lfariec dales : who commonly when 4.'904, he wouldaffirm any thing, were it true or falfe, ufed to fay, If it be not true, Ipray god" rot ere I dies and he had his defire. Sp had Sir Gervaife Ellowaies, Lieutenant of the Tower, hang'd in our remembrance onTower-hill, for being.acceffiry to the poi- foning ofSir Thommr.Overbury : who beiòg,upon the Gallows, confeft et was juft uponhim, for that he had oft in his playing Jolt M anl.: at cards and dice wifhed, That he might be bung'd, ifit Were not fi l"c®'nP-'9y, andf. In the year a55a. thedevil inavifiblefhapelifted up a curling woman into the air. in Germany; and therehence threw her down, in the view ofmany people, and brake her neck. A, another brought her daughter to Luther, entreating his .praiers for her, for that was pofieffed by the devil, upon her.curliin of
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